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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | The Political Economy of the Migrant Labour System |
Author: | Moyana, J. Kombo |
Year: | 1976 |
Periodical: | Africa Development: A Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA (ISSN 0850-3907) |
Volume: | 1 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | May |
Pages: | 34-41 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Southern Africa Mozambique |
Subjects: | labour migration centre and periphery Urbanization and Migration Labor and Employment Politics and Government Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/43658072 |
Abstract: | The 'centre-periphery' conceptual framework reveals the dynamics of the southern African peripheral development model. One important component is singled out for particular attention: the exportation of cheap unskilled labour from the periphery to the centre of the sub-system. The rationale for the migrant system and its historical evolution from the-turn of the century onwards, are examined. The migrant system has brought growth to the South African economy, and the mining industry in particular, while simultaneously bringing increased dependence, rural destitution, and under-development to neighbouring countries such as Lesotho, Mozambique and Botswana, which constitute the periphery of the sub-system. Notes, table. |